"The Senate’s Democratic Minority Leader Crying Chuck Schumer and six other Democrats recently sent President Trump a letter outlining what they claim are five necessary ingredients of any nuclear deal with North Korea: "the dismantlement and removal" of all chemical and biological as well as nuclear weapons from North Korea; an irreversible end to testing and research as part of that nation's nuclear program; restrictions on ballistic missile work; verifiable inspections; and permanent status for all terms.
"If the deal doesn’t live up to these standards, then the president should not expect Democratic support in the Senate if he tries to lift sanctions" on North Korea, Schumer (D-N.Y.) told POLITICO’s Elana Schor.
Democrats also demanded that President Trump engage lawmakers throughout the process, reported Ms. Schor, including by providing "regular and substantive briefings" through both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the National Security Working Group, a bipartisan forum established more than 30 years ago for the upper chamber to weigh in on arms control, anti-terrorism and other issues.
Given the Democrats’ distinct lack of interest in imposing the same conditions on Obama’s secret negotiations of the nuclear weapons deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, this would be hilariously hypocritical, if it wasn’t so destructive.
Chuck Schumer’s letter to President Trump is merely one more example of how desperate Democrats are to politicize and then torpedo anything Trump does. If the President really wanted to play the same game, he should announce that he was willing to give the North Koreans the same deal Obama gave the Iranians and watch the Democrats squirm.
Fortunately, President Trump has shown that, as his White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly put it, he has his eyes wide open on North Korea, and he doesn’t need any advice from Crying Chuck on what a good deal with Kim Jong-Un looks like." Richard Viguerie
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